Jessica Yellin on Our Anxiety Producing News Cycle
The Al Franken Podcast
ASF Productions
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A potentially catastrophic breach of security within The White House has set off alarm bells for both Republicans and Democrats in D.C. Independent journalist Jessica Yellin joins us to discuss SignalGate. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are both under fire after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat that contained top secret war plans (or was it just attack plans?). Will anyone get fired for this?
Plus, we talk about the Trump administration's lawlessness when it comes to deportations. What happens when a President blatantly defies a court order?
And Jessica shares why she left mainstream news and the importance of independent, online journalism, like her platform - News Not Noise.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today. You know, for a change. Jessica Yellen is my guess. You may remember Jessica from her 17 years as a correspondent on CNN and ABC. She was the senior White House correspondent for CNN, but left because she realized that her job was making |
| 0:22.4 | people irritated, tense, and anxious. So she went home to L.A. and started the News Not |
| 0:28.5 | Noise platform on Substack and Instagram. Of course, it is a little difficult these days to |
| 0:35.0 | digest the news without getting a little tense and irritated, |
| 0:38.8 | but at least with the news not noise, you get news you can trust about consequential events of the day |
| 0:44.6 | in a way that doesn't try to make you alarmed or indignant. |
| 0:49.0 | That's not to say that today's conversation isn't about this entirely fucked up administration. |
| 0:56.1 | We discuss Signalgate. |
| 1:01.8 | What do you think? Is Hegsath history? How about Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, |
| 1:08.9 | who signed Jeff Goldberg onto the Signal app? Ah, but there was no war planning discussed on the non-secure platform as our planes ready themselves to fly over Yemen |
| 1:13.0 | and blow some hoodies to kingdom come. I think the whole lot of them should go, though I take |
| 1:18.1 | Stephen Miller alone. But these MOOCs, not one of them said, hmm, signal, shouldn't we |
| 1:25.2 | Nimrods use something a little more foolproof? I mean, is it secure enough to discuss the timing of bombing runs? |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, Marco, I think it is. I mean, if our pilots were on Signal with us, wouldn't they say, |
| 1:38.3 | hey, director of National Intelligence, Gabbard, maybe you shouldn't be risking my friggin' life |
| 1:42.8 | so you don't have to inconvenience yourself to find a fucking skiff fuck you how many geniuses does it take for one just |
| 1:51.1 | one of 19 national security einsteins to say to himself or herself maybe i should take my thumb |
| 1:59.6 | out of my ass and say something. |
| 2:04.1 | Well, the bombing runs were successful, but no thanks to the 19 stooges. |
| 2:11.6 | Well, we got a great one today. |
| 2:14.0 | Oh, wait, wait. |
| 2:14.8 | The residence is still up on Netflix. |
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